Awwww...
Well, doesn't this article just warm your heart? None other than Wal-Mart is donating $1.5 million to hunger relief programs. So nice that after pioneering a business model that breaks new ground in corporate greed, they're giving a little back. I wonder how many beneficiaries will be their employees and family members thereof? I wonder how many will be former employees of local businesses destroyed by Wal-Mart.
And they also "will encourage Americans who receive a government-issued economic stimulus check to contribute a portion of the check to help the nation's hungry." I have no problem with that, but I'd also suggest that people donate another part to a group that organizes for decent jobs and a non-Wal-Mart economy.
And I must ask, at risk of repetition--how many Wal-Mart workers made enough to get stimulus checks. (My student-debt-accumulating ass didn't.)
And they also "will encourage Americans who receive a government-issued economic stimulus check to contribute a portion of the check to help the nation's hungry." I have no problem with that, but I'd also suggest that people donate another part to a group that organizes for decent jobs and a non-Wal-Mart economy.
And I must ask, at risk of repetition--how many Wal-Mart workers made enough to get stimulus checks. (My student-debt-accumulating ass didn't.)